Through a process known as convection, cooler nitrogen ice located in the middle of the cells falls away, and is replaced by a rising globule of (relatively) warm material, which has been heated ...

The swirling patterns made by the creamer are actually gravity waves and convection cells. And convection cells are phenomenon that we see in much larger form on the surface of the Sun ...

This means that its outer layers are more loosely bound to the star and the convection cells that move the plasma around – a bit like a lava lamp – change the surface more dramatically.

The image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, shows a Rayleigh-Bénard convection cell in action—a meteorological process that ...

The convection cells are much bigger, and much slower moving, than other structures previously spotted on the Sun. Data from NASA’s orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) show solar plasma ...

The fluffy ring is made up of cumulus clouds that have been sculpted into a Rayleigh-Benard convection cell — a meteorological phenomenon powered by the rising and falling of air that's been ...